I suppose with the word "mitigation" kind of already having a connotation in the security community, I probably shouldn't have used it without making clear that

I suppose with the word "mitigation" kind of already having a connotation in the security community, I probably shouldn't have used it without making clear that I wanted the term to include its more banal implications such as "install the patch" and/or "get your systems off that old-ass OS!"